Bill Text: NY S06500 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires general hospitals treating newborns to offer parents, persons in parental relation and caregivers Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough) vaccinations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - SIGNED CHAP.215 [S06500 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06500-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   February 16, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  general
         hospitals  with  a  newborn nursery or providing obstetric services to
         offer Bordetella pertussis vaccinations to certain persons
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  The subdivision heading and paragraph (a) of subdivision 3
    2  of  section  2805-h of the public health law, as added by chapter 282 of
    3  the laws of 2009, are amended to read as follows:
    4    Immunizations against influenza  AND  BORDETELLA  PERTUSSIS;  neonatal
    5  intensive  care  units.  (a) [Annually between September first and April
    6  first, it] IT shall be the duty of each  general  hospital  (I)  with  a
    7  neonatal  intensive care unit to offer, ANNUALLY BETWEEN SEPTEMBER FIRST
    8  AND APRIL FIRST, to every parent or person in parental relation  who  is
    9  reasonably  anticipated  to be a caregiver in the household of a newborn
   10  being treated in the neonatal intensive care  unit  vaccination  against
   11  influenza  virus; AND (II) HAVING A NEWBORN NURSERY OR PROVIDING OBSTET-
   12  RIC SERVICES TO OFFER TO EVERY PARENT, PERSON IN  PARENTAL  RELATION  OR
   13  OTHER  PERSON  WHO  IS  REASONABLY  ANTICIPATED  TO  BE A CAREGIVER OF A
   14  NEWBORN BEING TREATED IN SUCH HOSPITAL  VACCINATION  AGAINST  BORDETELLA
   15  PERTUSSIS  (WHOOPING  COUGH).    If  the  parent  or  person in parental
   16  relation wishes to be vaccinated, the hospital shall provide the  person
   17  with  the  vaccination.  If  the  parent  or person in parental relation
   18  declines the hospital offer or wishes to defer vaccination, the hospital
   19  shall provide information on where such person may be  vaccinated.  Such
   20  general  hospital  need not offer the vaccination to parents and persons
   21  in parental relation who have already received such vaccine or for  whom
   22  it is medically inappropriate.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   24  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13855-03-2